God save the Britrock

I went to a conference in the UK (Lake District, Cumbria) and god... It's amazing to hear the British accent. I' no longer used to it and I can barely understand the people (and the contrary was true, not surpricingly!).

English has so many diverse variations. The various international French accents do not seem so different to me. And I lived quite a long time in different francophone environments. A super interesting website (International dialects of English archive) gives some samples of many dialects in UK and in the world: here.